Claims
- 1. In a processor having data sense amplifiers that receive data from a data bus portion of a front side bus, a method comprising:
enabling said data sense amplifiers in response to an address strobe being asserted; and, disabling said data sense amplifiers at least in response to a queue being empty, said queue to keep track of transactions yet to be performed over said front side bus.
- 2. In a processor having data sense amplifiers that receive data from a data bus portion of a front side bus and address sense amplifiers that receive an address from an address bus portion of said front side bus, a method comprising:
enabling said address sense amplifiers in response to a request indication being asserted; enabling said data sense amplifiers in response to an address strobe being asserted; disabling said address sense amplifiers in response to said request indication being de-asserted; and, disabling said data sense amplifiers at least in response to a queue being empty, said queue to keep track of transactions yet to be performed over said data bus.
- 3. In a processor that is part of a multi-processor computing system having a plurality of processors and a memory controller, said plurality of processors and said memory controller coupled together through a front side bus, said processor comprising address sense amplifiers that receive an address from an address bus portion of said front side bus:
enabling said address sense amplifiers in response to a first request indication being asserted from another of said processors; and, keeping said address sense amplifiers enabled after said first request indication is de-asserted because a second request indication is asserted from said memory controller before said first request indication was de-asserted.
RELATED APPLICATION
[0001] The present application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/317,798, filed on Dec. 11, 2002.
Continuation in Parts (1)
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10317798 |
Dec 2002 |
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10436903 |
May 2003 |
US |